Violated Angels

Violated Angels (犯された白衣,, Okasareta Hakui) is a film made by controversial Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu in 1967. Wakamatsu's most famous film,[1] it is based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966.[2][3][4]

Violated Angels
Directed byKōji Wakamatsu
Written by
Produced byKōji Wakamatsu
Starring
  • Jūrō Kara
  • Keiko Koyanagi
  • Miki Hayashi
CinematographyHideo Itoh
Edited byFumio Tomita
Music byKoji Takamura
Distributed byWakamatsu Productions
Release date
  • March 1967 (1967-03)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

A young man breaks into a nurses' rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein. In the tradition of Wakamatsu's other Pinku eiga, there is much sexuality and nudity. However most of the actual murders take place off screen. Like other examples in Wakamatsu's work, the plot simplicity often feels like a "sadistic haiku".[5]

Cast
  • Jūrō Kara as The Handsome Boy
  • Keiko Koyanagi as The Head Nurse
  • Miki Hayashi as Nurse A
  • Shoko Kidowaki as Nurse B
  • Makiko Saegusa as Nurse C
  • Kyoko Yoyoi as Nurse D
  • Michiko Sakamoto as The Young Girl
  • Gusaku Satô as Riot Policeman
  • Shûzô Tanaka as Riot Policeman
  • Matajûrô Arafune as Riot Policeman
  • Kentarô Aichi as Riot Policeman

Production

The film was shot in black and white in just three days, probably much of it improvised and because of the low budget, many of the actresses were not professionals.[6]

Criticism

Like many films of this nature, Violated Angels was called anti-feminist and misogynistic by some critics. In Film As A Subversive Art, a book on underground cinema, Amos Vogel praises Wakamatsu's artistic talent, yet pans the film for its "...anti-feminist sadism which is not based on any ideological explanation and finally contributes misanthropic flavour to his work."

Notes
  1. Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 499. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  2. Weisser, p.101.
  3. Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the pink curtain: The complete history of Japanese sex cinema. UK: FAB Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
  4. Crispim, Pedro (2022). "Kōji Wakamatsu: Alienation and the Womb". Disegno. 6 (1): 34–53. doi:10.21096/disegno_2022_1pc. ISSN 2064-7778.
  5. Crispim, Pedro (2022). "Kōji Wakamatsu: Alienation and the Womb". Disegno. 6 (1): 34–53. doi:10.21096/disegno_2022_1pc. ISSN 2064-7778.
  6. Sharp, p. 86

References
  • Firsching, Robert. "Okasareta Ryakui[sic]". Allmovie. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
  • Fuchs, Christian (2002) [1996]. Bad Blood. Creation Books.
  • "VIOLATED ANGELS". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2007-10-02.
  • "Violated Angels" (in French). pinku.cho-yaba.com. Retrieved 2007-10-17.
  • Vogel, Amos (2005) [1974]. Film As A Subversive Art. Art Pub Inc.
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